“What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve believed?” I turn my head over and glare at him through the darkness. It took me a moment to wonder. I already knew my answer of course, but I didn’t want to come off as rash. I knew what I would say but how would I say it without sounding stupid?

I look out over the large pond admiring the elegant twists the riverbeds took, the melody the birds hummed lulled me to sleep, but the question kept me awake.

“You’re going to laugh, “I pout,

“Hey, no judgment here,” he smiles and raises his hands as though guilty. His eyes glitter with amusement but in them something deeper is reflected. I get lost for a moment in them. Questioning, always questioning.

“ Magic, “I sigh. It is stupid, I admit. I see him questioning me for a change now. His head leans away from the tree trunk we both sit lax against.

“But you..” he gestures again, but this time to the large raven like wings folded into my cloak.

“I know… it’s stupid and irrational to not believe in those things even while I have wings and can fly… but I was a mistake. I wasn’t ever.. meant to happen. People don’t shoot freeze pops from their fingertips and melt them with laser eyes,“ I pause “unless they do,” I purse my lips and look at the sky. He laughs but it is not of the airy thoughtless kind. His laughter came from a scared place. He closes his eyes for a moment. He looks back at me and says,

“What if I told you I can” he leans in and whispers. “What if I told you I could freeze this whole lake at a touch and make it snow on a hot July day, “ He is dead serious. I could tell he hid something, the moment I met him. I couldn’t put my finger on it but now…

“Show me,” I plead “tell me I am not alone in this crooked world.”